Scaling mana-aura

Scaling mana-aura

In my experience, the mana aura is absotutely vital to any mana-hungry champion at early levesl (e.g. Malphite blows through his base mana in less than three rotations).

You simply cannot build enough of a mana pool/mana regen to meet the demands of many high mana champions early.

Late game, this becomes much less of an issue as your base stats kick in, you get the opportunity to build big ticket mana items without completely forgoing both your survivability and damage.

So, presuming that the existing mana aura is undesirable, how does having the aura decay with either level or time sound? Mana-hungry champions can still function in the early game, but less mana-intensive champions don't become essentially manaless late game.

I'm not proposing having the mana aura decay to zero; just decay gradually from double at 0 mana to say 50% (i.e. regular chalice passive) increase at the extreme end of games (i.e. 40 minutes).

If so, it was removed to try and STOP mana-hungry champions from spamming their skills. With it, 'mana champions' essentially become 'energy champions' with a 2,000 pool. At level 6, Kass and Kog can spam their ults around the map without fear of oom, just picking up relics.

You start the game with 1,350 gold. Surely there's enough room in that for a mana item. Heck, most Malphs start with a Prospector's Ring... there's probably a reason for that. Sell it @ level 7 if you want.

If so, it was removed to try and STOP mana-hungry champions from spamming their skills. With it, 'mana champions' essentially become 'energy champions' with a 2,000 pool. At level 6, Kass and Kog can spam their ults around the map without fear of oom, just picking up relics.

You start the game with 1,350 gold. Surely there's enough room in that for a mana item. Heck, most Malphs start with a Prospector's Ring... there's probably a reason for that. Sell it @ level 7 if you want.

Good luck!

So forcing a class of champions to buy mandatory items before they can be useful is good... how?